Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 2 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 3 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 4 | I practice a few poses for Marcus . |
| 5 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 6 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 7 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 8 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 9 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 10 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 11 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 12 | Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair . |
| 13 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 14 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |
| 15 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 16 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 17 | Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 . |
| 18 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 19 | The Park Row machine is one of several opened in recent weeks a various locations throughout Britain including the Rangers shop in Edmonston Drive , Glasgow , and the Scotmid supermarket in Old Edinburgh Road , Uddingston . |
| 20 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 21 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 22 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 23 | To our relief we found the seas calm enough off the normal east landing at Geodha Stoth and dropped anchor a few yards off shore . |
| 24 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 25 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 26 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 27 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 28 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 29 | They found council members swamped with paper : several hundred , or in extreme cases a thousand sheets of paper being distributed to each councillor each month . |
| 30 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |